[mythtv-users] Data Direct "service"

David Brodbeck gull at gull.us
Sun Apr 8 00:51:33 UTC 2007


Bruce Markey wrote:
> I covered this at length elsewhere in this thread. This is a
> (")service(") they initialized and imposed (rather sternly on
> XMLTV). They are the beneficiaries and this is by no means
> an act of generosity on their part and this is the "number
> two" referred to in my other message.
>
>   
>> It makes for a lopsided power arrangement.
>>     
>
> That is true but it sounds as if your assumption of which way
> it is leaning is incorrect.
>   

I disagree.  They may have created Data Direct to reduce load on their
servers, but they weren't obligated to.  They could have accomplished
the same thing by blocking screen scraping -- say, by rejecting IP
addresses that generated excessive requests, like many WHOIS servers
have done.  The fact that they put effort into creating a service to
accommodate us instead of just blocking us represents an act of
generosity on their part.


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